Guest post by Paul Craig Roberts
Some time ago I wrote about the falsification by historians of World War I. Now we are watching the falsification of history in Ukraine. What is essentially a US invasion of Ukraine is called a Russian invasion, and the conflict that Washington is provoking is being blamed on Russia.
My generation associated dystopias, such as George Orwell’s 1984, with the Soviet Union, a country in which explanations were controlled and criticism of Stalin would land a person in the Gulag.
We thought of the United States and our life in America much differently.
But with the passage of time the difference between life in the Soviet Union in the 20th century and life in the Western world today is disappearing.
Today, the journalist Julian Assange is undergoing the same kind of state terror and torture as any Soviet dissident, if not worse. It was a mistake for my generation to associate Orwell’s Memory Hole and falsified history only with the Soviet Union. Falsified history was all around us. We just didn’t know enough to spot it.
The Western media is as controlled as the Soviet media was, with print, TV, and public radio serving as a propaganda ministry for government and the interest groups that control government. Social media, such as Facebook, youtube, and Twitter are systematically denying their platforms to those who express views not supportive of the ruling order and its agendas.
It has turned out to be easy to get rid of the First Amendment guarantee of free speech as the media have neither the ability nor the intention of exercising it.
What living and learning has taught me is that history tends to always be falsified, and historians who insist on the truth suffer for it. It has been established that many of the ancient historians are unreliable, because they were “court historians” who sought material benefit by writing to please a ruler.
In my time many an historian has written for income from book sales by enthralling the public with tales of glorious victories over demonized enemies that justified all the sons, grandsons, brothers, fathers, uncles, husbands, friends, and cousins who were sacrificed for the sake of capitalist armaments profits.
No publisher wanted a truthful account that no one would buy because of the stark portrayal of the pointlessness of the deaths of loved ones. Everyone, or almost so, wants to think that their loss was for a noble cause and was “worth it.”
With few exceptions, English speaking historians have put the blame for both world wars on Germany. This is false history.
The first real historian of World War I, or what was called at the time the Great War or the World War, was Harry Elmer Barnes. Barnes was Professor of Historical Sociology at Smith College and the William Bayard Cutting Fellow in History at Columbia University. His book, The Genesis of the World War, was published in 1926 by Alfred A. Knopf in New York.
Instead of covering up, as expected, the allied crimes and treachery against Germany, Barnes told the truth. The German Kaiser, a relative of the British and Russian royal families, was known throughout the world as a peacemaker, praised by the New York Times for that role.
It is a known and indisputable fact that the German government acted for peace until Germany, the last power to mobilize, had to mobilize or be overrun by Russia and France, who were allied with the British against Germany.
Never before in history has the very last power to mobilize been blamed for starting a war. But facts never get in the way of court historians.
The genesis of the war was the desire for Constantinople on the part of two of the Russian Tsar’s ministers, and the French president’s desire to regain Alsace-Lorraine, territory lost to Germany in the 1870 Franco-Prussian war.
These schemers used Austria’s response to the assassination of the Austrian archduke in Serbia, which they likely orchestrated, to declare war as Germany was the protector of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire.
American president Woodrow Wilson secured an armistice to the World War, which had senselessly destroyed millions of lives, by promising Germany that if she agreed to an armistice, there would be no territorial losses for Germany and no reparations. When Germany agreed to the armistice, it was Germany that occupied territories of the opposing camp. There were no foreign troops on German territory.
As soon as Germany disengaged, the British put into effect a food blockade that forced starving Germans to submit to the exploitative Versailles Treaty that violated every promise that President Wilson had made.
Some intelligent people, including the most famous economist of the 20th century, John Maynard Keynes, said that the Versailles Treaty, an exercise in coverup for who caused the war, guaranteed a future war. And Keynes, not the grasping corrupt establishment, was right. Hitler originated in Germany’s gratuitous humiliation, and his political party’s efforts to put a disassembled Germany back together resulted in WW II.
For his truth-telling efforts, Harry Elmer Barnes was declared by the court historians to be a German agent paid to write a false history. As Barnes’ voice was greatly outnumbered by the court historians making money and enjoying university appointments by telling lies, the history of the Great War remained, for most, falsified throughout the 20th century.
Barnes was vindicated in 2014 when Christopher Clark at Cambridge University published The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914.
Clark added to Barnes’ evidence that the Great War resulted from a plot by two Russian government ministers and the president of France to steal coveted territory from Turkey and Germany. The facts and the documentation stand complete.
But one hundred years after the war who is around to care?
All the people who died in the war as well as their bereaved families who suffered from the plot of three evil men are dead and gone.
The consciousness of the world has already been distorted by a century of false history, a false history that set up Germany for blame again, this time for World War II.
Now in our present time, we are watching liars set up World War III with false reports about Russia. World War III is likely to be a terminal war for humanity. For the demise of the human race and life on the planet we can thank liars.
Consider the irresponsible US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. He is in the news warning US embassy staff in Kiev, Ukraine, that Russian troops and tanks could be pouring over the Ukraine border at any moment. The asseertion that Russia is going to invade Ukraine has been a mainstay of US propaganda for some time.
If Blinken really believes this, why did the US not forestall the expected invasion by giving Russia the security protection she needs by agreeing to no further expansion of NATO? Why, instead, did Blinken keep the prospect of Ukraine’s membership in NATO open and send more arms and more US military personal to train Ukrainian troops in the use of the American weapons? Blinken understands very well that no amount of weapons in Ukrainian hands could stop a Russian invasion.
It seems that Blinken wants conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Why? Several reasons become apparent once the question is asked. It makes the Russian Threat real and solidifies Washington’s hold on Europe. It calls forth more budget and power for the US military/security complex, and it improves Biden’s faltering chances in the elections.
Biden is damaged goods. He often seems to not really be there. He has allowed into America many illegal aliens and sent them into red states. He has angered many with his vaccine mandates, with his prosecutions of several hundred Trump supporters as “insurrectionists,” and he has normalized sexual perversion by appointing them to high office. These and other ideological moves have annoyed many Americans who are ready to show their disapproval at the voting booth.
A war rescues the Democrats. Here come the Russians. They won’t stop with Ukraine, and so on. People rally around the president in war time. This is a plausible reason that Washington turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to Russia’s security concern and is instead worsening Russia’s concern by pouring arms into Ukraine and planning joint military exercises with the Ukrainian army.
We are once again watching a war being set up for selfish reasons.
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Smoke and mirrors…
Every time I read TBP, another book (or 3) is added to my reading list. I don’t think I shall have the time to read them all.
At least read “A Confederacy of Dunces” by John Kennedy Toole.
I usually just skim PCR’s articles, but this one really struck a nerve.
The reason? Because I recently reviewed Kissinger’s Diplomacy online, having read it in college when I took a class in international diplomacy at OU. It isn’t exactly a “page-turner” and I admit to having skimmed much of it and using the index to inform myself about the topics relevant to the class.* Henry Kissinger was involved, in some way, with our nation’s diplomatic policy-making since the 1950s, at least. He probably still is doing so, his mind hooked up to some device to keep him manipulating the world’s chess pieces.
Doesn’t it make sense? Why wouldn’t another senile old megalomaniac be advising the other senile megalomaniacs driving us toward One World Order.
Kissinger orchestrated the Vietnam withdrawal, didn’t he? I wonder if he advised Biden on Afghanistan?
*I noticed the professor liked to cite Kissinger quite a bit and noticed a tabbed volume of the book on his desk. It was not assigned reading, but I know a good clue when I see one. A+++ on the final which was the only graded test.
I read a discussion suggesting Hitler used the Russian front to hide a lot of genocide.
I think it is Biden’s controllers plan as well. Distract and destroy.
I read a discussion suggesting Hitler used the Russian front to hide a lot of genocide.
You read a discussion so you spread the misinfo nonchalantly like it has street creds and add to the propo?
I’ll go find it and post the link when I have time to go through my history.
It was actually part of a documentary from a history site. One I’m sure you will disagree with one hundred percent.
And if you think THEY aren’t using this threat of war with Putin as a distraction from what THEY are doing here, well,
Of course they’re using it. Who said they were or weren’t. The history channel doesn’t count as history.
That wasn’t my source… I think it is this guy, but have decided you can just listen to him while I do again. If possible, I’ll cue it up to the point.
I’m Mark Baker, I’m the director of the Australian Centre for Jewish civilization at Monash University.
Co-presented by the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation at Monash University.
Are you serious Maggie?
Yes. I fucking am.
And the last time I checked I had a fucking right to my fucking opinion.
No, YO… pretending to be risen from the ashes is retarded.
and, like Biden said… it matters just who counts it… counts it… counts it as history.
And neither do you.
Why, yes I do if I fucking feel like it.
Bring it.
Given the mantra is that Russian troops are massing on the border with Ukraine it is reasonable to expect some evidence. Evidence such as maps and satellite photographs. Zilch.
We are witnessing a dying empire lashing out, knowing that the end is drawing near, not caring who is taken down with them.
Yes, a dying empire, the globalist empire. The narrative is collapsing everywhere, the media is panic preaching the official party line, more are seeing through their desperation every day. It will be ugly, hang on for the ride!
Anyone else notice a pattern ?
Every president has one of those. Right? I think Trump thought he was gonna outsmart them but he didn’t realize Jared was his handler.
Every president must have a handler aka ” advisor” and that advisor must always have cosmopolitan roots . Money wills it that way.
All 3 USA presidents are old very liberal Democrats.
All 3 had/ have a silver spoon in their mouth throughout life.
All 3 promised the American public the Moon but delivered the basement of the Outhouse. Granted the last one is still a work in progress.
See a pattern now?
You’re welcome.
Biden’s father was a used car salesman and Wilson father was a Presbyterian minister…hardly silver spoon material and liberal is subjective . Anymore insight into
history and ideology you care to share ?
Badass Biden doubles down.
When you look in the mirror, is the stupid staring back in any way alarming ?
just a reflection of you peanut butter man!
ha ha ha ha ….TOO FUNNY
thanks! have some jelly too… you’re amazing!
Not amazing as you, bruh. I’m mean the fact that you can even feed yourself speaks volumes to tard can do. Sometimes you almost seem intelligent and I forget to pity the fool.
you have a lot of repressed anger.. is something bothering you peanut butter and jam man? Let it out and tells us your secret that you hide in your special place..
Lieber Freund
Es ist in Ordnung, dein wahres Ich zu sein..
Grüße
Dein Freund,
RiNS
Heil Hitler und so…
Why the German , bruh ? I doubt anyone on TBP other than Stuck speaks it. Do you ?
Nein!
HH and all that stuff!
So, are a non-German speaking neo-Nazi then, or just an incessant attention whore trying your hardest to be the cutest ass clown on TBP ?
Pretty hard to top you as cutest ass clown on TBP..
Not much point and besides I already have enuf jobs. That said I could make a peanut butter and jam sandwich, or two, for my best damn freund, that’d be you if you hadn’t figured it out, Ladies and Gents it’s the jam master flash, the most amazing thin skin grouch in da whole wide world.
Here is a song for ya!
And a picture of ya for everyone else…
Awwww
Ain’t he a cutie!
And no need to danke me..
Best,
RiNS
p.s.
SH ou quelque chose comme ça…
Rock em or Sock em?
hilarious…
Since I got here first I wanna be blue.. it’s my favourite colour..
Being from Canuckistan if you mention Rock em or Sock em this is what I think of..
Nick loves it… he got Dish so he could watch Hockey… watches every night now… he’s a happy clamster with me snuggled against his back reading my blogs.
It’s a whole new world. My barn is looking better and better. LOL… I got the kitchen sort of set up today. (Toilet and sink are functional… everything else is bonus.)
Is idiot a family trait or was there an accident ?
not a good look flash, your in the trolley tracks…
Does that come with peanut butter too, jackass ?
I guess you haven’t watched the video yet, quelle shocker! Don Cherry will splain. And don’t worry he does not use big words and speaks slowly so there’ll be no need for you to have to struggle reading closed captions.
Best,
RINS
I don’t care to watch your stupid vid , retard. Just say what it is you gave to say then shut the fuck up.
Flash- Did you know PB causes InstaChimp ??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BOD1tZa_xE
Bea
Good video… hopefully it will put a laugh on the flash.
who am I kidding… Probably not…
Peanut butter contains government allowances for rat hair, vermin feces , bug carcass and whatever other filth migrant workers decide to throw in. I never touch the stuff, but no doubt shit for brains from the scrotum of kookland is obsessed with the greasy mess…prolly’even puts it on his buttplug.
the way you talk has me wondering if you are into some sort fetish..
weird, just weird.
Sez the inbred idiot yammering on about peanut butter and jam…must be an old family recipe. I’ve read of winter sickness amongst the far north families.
You mean when the MSM looks at their monitors? Or FJB and his Cabinet look in a mirror…An example of how stupid they are, I remember when Blow Job Bill’s Cabinet came out of a meeting to the rose garden to meet the reporters and Donna Shellala spoke for them and said that Billy Bentcrank was innocent of having sex with that woman because he told them all that he was innocent. And he was found innocent by the Senate per se. So many lies, so many fools, so many Democrats.
Biden wanting a “go ” with Putin. Play stupid games…
Don’t invade, form a coalition to launch an all out surprise attack on the FJB AA Faggot loving idiot heads of the snake, their command and control communications, and all its’ nuclear forces (called Decapitation); and immediately dispatch all enemy theater forces; destroy all potential enemy resistance (called Shock and Awe). Invade the enemy territory. Americans know all about it from dishing it out multiple times to other countries.
And now Russia is heading to Cuba to install its missiles as a counter to the US selling weaponry to the Ukrainians. President Kennedy kept Russia from putting missiles in Cuba with the threat of war if they continued. And, you don’t think Putin has the same right to keep American missiles out of the Ukraine?
Putin must guard Russia’s borders just like America must watch our southern border, that Biden has purposefully left open. Our southern border is about 1954 miles, Russia’s Western border is 2500 miles, so Putin is going to be less willing to give in to America’s demands because they have about 28% more border to be cautious of.
If Winken Bliken & Nod takes us into another war, I would hope that Russia bombes Washington into oblivion, as it may be the only way to take out ALL THE CRIMINALS IN ONE FELL SWOOP !!! AND, we can only hope that maybe Gen Miley will let Washingtonians know ahead of time if they are going to be turned in dust.
OUR GOVERNMENT SICK BEYOND REPAIR !
Some of the miscreates behind US foreign policy will be safe and secure (for a while) in underground cites and bunkers. It will be the rest of us who suffer from the oligarchs’ psychopathy. Isn’t it sad war criminals like George H.W. Bu$h, Donald Rumsfeld and Colin Powell die never seeing the inside of a jail cell, courtroom or gallows while ordinary humans continue to suffer the consequences of their evil long after they are gone? This flies against the natural order, let’s hope there is COSMIC JUSTICE in play and psychopaths like Biden get exactly what they deserve on the other side!
Death is but a doorway and what awaits these dirtballs isn’t a party.
Open letter to Putin…
Lat. 38°53’24.17″N
Long. 77° 0’33.84″W
Please… do everyone a solid favour and turn this area to glass. The rest of the country and world would be graciously thankful.
Brian, reminds me of what Richard Mayberry used to say : One day we will wake up and find that DC is just a smoking hole in the ground. Wouldn’t that just be terrible–90% of our enemies gone! Get the thank you cards ready.
you stole stole my down voter…
without comment
True and sad
Things have sure gone down a lot since 2013.
Affirmative action at work
I call it the Joo-O-Rama. The US is run from Tel Aviv.
Biden doesn’t have a (((SIL))) running the oval orifice for him like Trump, so he needs extra joos on the payroll.
It’s almost like the swamp has been captured by a cabal…
Ya think?? A gefilte fish in every pot and a joo in every cabinet post!
Ja, those ((Chinese)) in Biden’s sphere are running things.
Okay, let’s go “offline” and do something we’ve never done and have a little “girl talk.”
A couple of times, EC emailed me offline to explain something to me I was unaware. He said I reminded him of this hick from Illinois he went through tech school training and she, like me, was naive to some of the nuances of bigotry.
First of all, I’ve never really understood the rules and bylaws here at TBP regarding Jews. I’ve known perhaps a half-dozen Jews, half of them living next to my inlaws in Cleveland suburbs (Middleberg Hts). Nice folks at the funeral and told nice stories about my inlaws. The other two or three were people I met in the USAF; they are rare but I tend to ferret out rare people and take a closer look.
Like most people in the US, I assumed people’s religious nature was their own business and so, when people in the workplace start proselytizing, I frowned upon it too.
It is almost as if we have Someone with No Name* around here tempering outright antisemitism whilst preventing the idea that Hitler might have been anti-Semitic because it is only fair to censor both views.
So, tell me exactly why it is that we now must pretend the National Socialists did not sweep Adolf Hitler into power in Germany with the same intent as those who insist upon the pretending the lie holds true: Eliminate Joos but don’t say it aloud.
My German great-grandparents immigrated from Germany in 1878ish, as Yiddish Yergers and arrived at Ellis Island as Christians. Hallelujah. One of their children, my great-grandmother, married a pureblood Aryan.
Tsk…tsk. What to do with me.
Explain why the Jewish lineage of those folks is so important. As I just showed, I could trace back to the “Joos” too, if someone wanted to suggest it. So what… my mother is Irish. That cancels all the Jewish out.
*I’m not suggesting TMWNN because SWNN is and external agent(s).
There are good Jews (like my Dad) just like every other group of people. And half Jews like me and Barry Goldwater who said he put America first. The greater problem is Zionism that puts Israel before America and is using US like a colony. Judaism and Islam are similar and in my opinion dangerous; other religions to my knowledge do not advocate taking over and killing others. Like Abigale Adams said in so many words: “Conservatives just want to be left alone and be happy; they don’t do much in politics per se”. But the Zionist organize, take over groups, make rules, force their ways on others, censor and harass people, spy and conspire, cause discention on purpose, apply Critical Theory, divide and conquer, get others to fight each other and esp to do their own fighting for them, use and abuse the labor of others, take over finance and media, control government and commerce, try to destroy others religions, generally piss the people off of in a country and get expelled. It’s only happened over 100 times in 2000 years.
For years I have said that when the Fed can no longer levitate and they let the markets crash, (((they))) will drop a war on your head that will keep the sheep running for cover while (((they))) slip out of town so nobody puts them in front of a brick wall. Expect it, it’s coming.
Beware the Ides of March. It’s Jupiters(Their) month.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ides_of_March
I never fail to keep a lookout in March Flea, wit all da Ides and sheit. 🙂
I am in agreement with PCR about the present situation regarding the Ukraine/Russians but his historical analysis here of the first world war is highly inaccurate. As a history major I have looked at many angles of the first world war but this article does not bear up to scrutiny. Germany had an aggressive foreign policy leading up to the war. The Kaisar was more than belicose on many occasions. For instance the build up of a navy against the British who viewed the Germans fairly beneignly until this policy. Germany was not the last country to mobilize and they declared war on Russia, and France first. They invaded neutral Belgium. At the end of the war their populations were in full rebellion and their armies in rapid retreat. Their navy mutinied. Wilson was a catalyst to the armistance but by no means athe only major player. This article smacks of emotional outrage. Best to leave that state of mind to the NATO war loving establishment. PCR plays into his opponents hands with his historical analysis in this article. His cause of peace and freedom is to important for this type of indulgence. It is imperative we win the fight for individual liberty and freedom from foreign entanglements. Leave the emotion irrationality to our opponents
(((Who))) was at the root of that Stab in the Back?
You are so badly deluded there are no words.
https://www.unz.com/article/hidden-history-the-secret-origins-of-the-first-world-war/
You have one sentance right Matt:
“It is imperative we win the fight for individual liberty and freedom from foreign entanglements”.
The rest is past ‘deluded’ it is into believing what you have been taught…not what is the truth.
“NATO war loving establishment”. Is another truth from your post…but that’s about it buddy.
What was taught..not what is truth! My thought to contemplate this weekend.
By adopting this stance, Biden gets to channel just the tiniest bit of John Wayne, with a swagger instead of his usual precarious stumble. For a brief, shining moment he gets to talk to a real world leader and look presidential rather than like a doddering fool who has a useless toxic bimbo for a sidekick.
I am a veteran and I would not rally around Biden in a war with Russia.